Hermosa Beach, CA -- June 2, 1998 -- Gefion software today announced the immediate availability of InstantOnline Basic 1.0. InstantOnline Basic is a standards based solution for Web Browser database access. Conformance to the Java Servlet API, JDBC and HTML 3.2 makes InstantOnline Basic extremely portable and scalable. Being a Servlet based product, InstantOnline Basic also offers greatly improved performance over CGI based solutions and allows a developer to use InstantOnline Basic with any Web Authoring and Site Management tool.

"From our own experience and by talking to other Web Site developers we realized that accessing a database from a Web Browser was much more complicated than it had to be," said Hans Bergsten, President of Gefion software. "All solutions out there were either proprietary or too expensive for the basic needs of most Web Sites. So we decided to develop an open, standards based, solution, gaining ease of use and scalabilty by leveraging other standards based products. InstantOnline Basic is that solution."

InstantOnline Basic is a set of Servlets that are embedded in HTML files using HTML-like <SERVLET> tags. The Servlets can be used to read information from a database and present the result as an HTML table or as a free-form HTML pattern, and to store information submitted by a user through an HTML FORM. All database query parameters and HTML properties can be set to fit the customers exact needs.

The Servlet API is supported by all major Web Servers, natively or through inexpensive or free 3rd-party add-ons, as well as by high-end Application Servers, such as Dynamo and NetDynamics. InstantOnline Basic uses JDBC, the standard Java database interface, to read and modify data, ensuring support for all major database engines.

Hundreds of developers around the world have tested the Beta version of InstantOnline Basic. "Gefion Software's InstantOnline product, in combination with the InstantDB database product, is the fastest way I've found to get started with databases and Web pages using server-side Java," said Daniel Kehoe, Fortuity Consulting.

Pricing and Availability

InstantOnline Basic 1.0 is available now in three versions: InstantOnline Basic 1.0 Evaluation (2 concurrent sessions) free of charge, InstantOnline Basic 1.0 (10 concurrent sessions) $249.00, and InstantOnline Basic 1.0 Pro (unlimited number of concurrent sessions) $499.00. All versions are licensed for the use on a single server. For more information customers should visit http://www.gefionsoftware.com/InstantOnline/.

About Gefion software

Gefion software is a privately held company located in Hermosa Beach, California, founded in 1997. Gefion software develops products that simplify development of network based, platform independent, applications.

With the company's focus on platform independent solutions, Java is the programming language of choice. All Gefion software products are developed in Java and use Java based technology to interface proprietary systems, such as JDBC for database access. For more information about Gefion software and its products, please visit http://www.gefionsoftware.com/.

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